History
History at The Marlborough School
Vision
The Marlborough School History curriculum helps to explain the world as it is by exploring the world as it was, in an intriguing and ambitious way. Understanding is developed around strong subject knowledge, which is explored through enquiries that span global, continental, or local scales, emphasising the complexity of the past and the constructed, contested nature of solid historical concepts, such as diversity, empire, government, power, conflict and trade. Through this, pupils will develop their disciplinary thinking, explore the past from multiple perspectives and viewpoints. The History Curriculum endeavours to develop crucial skills by interrogating sources, reading, and evaluating and synthesising challenging scholarship.
Undoubtedly, the History Department curriculum at the Marlborough School is knowledge rich, driven by scholarship which in turn will increase pupils’ curiosity, critical thinking, and communication skills. Our curriculum will give all pupils the confidence to build strong arguments of their own and the flexibility to incorporate new perspectives into their thinking, help pupils question the world in which we live, which will influence the people and communities around them once they complete their history curriculum.
Curriculum Map
Each KS3 unit of work is linked to the Unit Overview which specifies core knowledge, vocabulary and forms of assessment.
GCSE and A level courses are linked to the relevant exam board specification.
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Year Group |
Unit of Work |
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7 |
Introduction to History |
Baghdad and the Silk Roads |
Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings |
Medieval England |
The Crusades |
Late Medieval Europe |
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8 |
Tudor England |
Stuart England |
Empires of the World |
The impact of slavery |
The Industrial World |
The Road to Democracy |
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9 |
The First World War |
The Impact of WWI |
The Holocaust |
Diversity in C20th Britain |
GCSE: Crime & Punishment |
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Crime & Punishment |
Elizbeth: The Early Years |
The Weimar Republic |
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11 |
The Rise of the Nazis |
Life in Nazi Germany |
The Cold War |
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Britain: Henry VII |
World: Germany 1871-1914 |
Britain: Henry VIII |
World: Germany 1914-18 |
Britain:Edward |
World: Weimar Germany |
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13 |
Britain: Mary |
World: Nazi Germany |
NEA: Civil Rights in America 1865-2010 |
Britain: Elizabeth |
World The Holocaust |
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Departmental Team
| Mr L Moss (Head of Department) |